The Superdome has been scrubbed clean, the occasional whiff of disinfectant the only visceral reminder of its brief life as a refugee camp.
Here is a visceral reminder of all that made his past work so hauntingly majestic, even if this movie's difficulties will soon announce themselves with equal clarity.
The program is better at offering visceral reminders of how pop culture has veered all over the place in the past year.
The sudden sight of this sea of graves is a visceral reminder that the journey's fights, gossip, longings and confusion are the stuff of life.
But at least 27 of the 50 or so injured were from the division, offering a visceral reminder of the risks associated with the soldiers' mission.
Like several other experiences here, this one offers a visceral reminder that 60 years later, the story of art in New York during the 1940's is still not fully known.
And in the civic realm, it is a visceral reminder - as the rebuilding begins in earnest - of what was lost in the first place.
Not to mention the fact that this brief exchange was a visceral reminder of just how far the Doctor had come in four years.
But the meeting with the Mayor was a visceral reminder that the board could vote to reimpose binding control if certain conditions were met.
Amy Weinstein, the curator, called it "a visceral reminder of the terror, grief and emotional turmoil of that day."